Windows Exercises


Exercise 1
1. Start the Windows system and log on using login:GUEST and password: GUEST.
2. Open three programs: Notepad, Paint and Calculator to work in the same time. Practice the making of typical activities associated with the Windows system controling:
- switching the active program (using the keyboard and the mouse)
- minimizing, maximizing the active window
- changing window size
- closing program (using menu, window closing button and the keyboard)
3.Use the Notepad program to create a file that contain your:
- firstname and lastname
- index number
- birth date
and save the file in the WORK directory named "mydata.txt"
4. Close down the Notepad and open the created file using menu "Documents". Open the second Notepad and copy contains of the file to the new document (using context menu, program menu and the keyboard shortcuts).
5. Compute and save in the file "computes.txt" the result of this calculation (2.343+1.8554/4.5567)*7.9923= ... , using Calculator, Notepad and data removing mechanism with clipboard.

Exercise 2
1. Create this structure of directories in the WORK directory:
MY DIRECTORY DATA PICTURES
SOUNDS
TEXTS
PROGRAMS
TEMPORARY

2. Move the file "mydata.txt" from the WORK directory to the TEXTS directory renaming it to "persondata.txt"
3. Find any three files with the TXT extention and copy them to the TEMPORARY directory
4. Find any two files with the BMP extention that have "a" letter in the name and copy them to the PICTURES directory
5. Move the files from the TEMPORARY directory to the TEXTS directory
6. Find two files that end the "a" letter in the name (any extention) and copy them to the TEMPORARY directory
7. Enable "read only" attribute for the TEXTS directory
8. Enable "hidden" and "archive" attributes and disable "read only" attribute for the files in the PICTURES directory
9. Create a directory labeled COPY in the C:\WORK directory and copy the contents of the MY DIRECTORY directory to created directory
10. Change the name of the COPY directory to BACKUP and enable "archive" and "read only" attributes
11. Share the MY DIRECTORY directory in the LAN with "read only" access rights
12. Mount the PUBLIC directory from the ZLY computer as X: disc
13. Disable the MY DIRECTORY sharing
14. Unmount X: disc
15. Delete all directories with the contents created by you